With my impending upgrade to Vista, I will need to upgrade my antivirus tool. I'm currently running McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 7 and am able to get a newer version that runs on Vista, but I'm wondering if I save a bit of bother and get Avast instead.

Money aside, are they comparable? I'm happy to sacrifice performance to the application resources if that makes my PC safer.

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bradstewart: You should consider Windows Live OneCare. Version 2 is in the beta stage and it is now an excellent program. You could give that try. I haven't noticed it affecting my system performance in any way.

Hmm, my experience has not been the best with it, and I am thinking of removing it and going back to Avast.

bradstewart: You should consider Windows Live OneCare. Version 2 is in the beta stage and it is now an excellent program. You could give that try. I haven't noticed it affecting my system performance in any way.

Hmm, my experience has not been the best with it, and I am thinking of removing it and going back to Avast.

Yeah 1.5 wasn't the beta. But v2 beta is really good. Much much faster too

OneCare seems a bit too much for me. Sure, it sounds nice to have it all in one package but I do a number of the included functions myself for free. Still I might give it a go - I may change my opinion.

(brilliant name for the app btw, they obviously weren't thinking of how it may be pronounced )

Post-geek, opinionated mediaphile, and natural born cynic. Jack of all genres, master of none.

that fertism guy has helped me alot i would go with him i had just gotten a new computer and my norton av had ran out(dam 3 month free thing) and i have this thing that after 5min on the internet like 6 tabs open and u close them and they come back up (it annoying)0 wait i am going off topic but if u can help plz write

EDIT (RC) - Please use your own thread. People are more likely to help you that way.